Seminar Abstract

Moving Towards Open Systems and Client/Server

As corporate downsizing is becoming the rule in data processing, clientserver and distributed processing is increasing. Much of the data and software in large corporations runs on large systems under a number of operating systems including VMS/OpenVMS, UNIX, and IBM's MVS. This seminar focuses on the issues of moving applications from the proprietary to open systems.

Hardware, operating environments, development environments, management, and staffing considerations will be discussed.

Topics to be covered include:

• Existing Environments
  • Where are We Coming From
  • How are we Doing where we are
  • Can we handle the future
• New Environments
  • Client/Server
  • Open Systems
  • Internet
  • Other Proprietary Systems
• Databases and languages
  • Databases - old and new
  • Languages - old and new
• Development Environments
• Staffing issues
  • Existing Staff
  • Re-engineering the workforce
  • Training
  • Using Consultants
• Managing the change
  • What to do with Existing Applications
  • What to do with Existing Equipment
  • Selling to all Levels of Management
  • Things to Consider
  • Infrastructure
  • Centralize or Decentralize

The goal of this seminar is to allow the attendee to understand the issues of downsizing from large computers.

Prerequisites of Attendees:

Attendees should be familiar with their corporate information technology environments - current and planned future. An understanding of the underlying technologies would be helpful but not required.

Focus:

Management and Senior Technical Staff. Intermediate/Advanced.